Patch 6.0 is the pre-patch for Warlords of Draenor and it has many notable changes such as the item squish and toy box. This guide focuses on the mounts, pets, titles, and other items that you want to collect before 6.0 hits since they're going away!

All items will have their stats and socket bonuses squished. In addition, items that have hit and expertise will have those stats removed and converted into a useful secondary stat like haste, crit, or mastery. Spirit will no longer be found on armor pieces as well (it can still be found on non-armor pieces like necks).

You can see these gear changes by visiting wod.wowhead.com. Or, if you're on an item's specific page, click on the "Warlords of Draenor" text at the top left to be taken to the Warlords version of the page.

As well as these changes, we've got the latest hotfixes and the new free-to-play hero set in Heroes of the Storm: We've recently implemented an often requested feature to enable cross-realm raiding for Siege of Orgrimmar. Cross-realm BattleTag™ and Real ID friends can now raid together and take the fight to Garrosh on Normal or Heroic difficulty. Players will be able to earn greater rewards such as Reins of the Kor'kron War Wolf or the title of Conqueror/Liberator of Orgrimmar; both of which aren't available to be earned within Flexible or Raid Finder difficulty.This change is currently live.Correct -- current-tier Mythic raiding in Warlords will still be limited to players from a single server. In the meantime, though, this change may help guilds that are trying to recruit and grow in preparation for Mythic raiding. As for realm firsts, realm firsts are guild achievements; you need to be in a guild group, which is by definition 8/10 or 20/25 members coming from a single guild on a single server. You could theoretically have a couple of guests from a different server and still claim the realm first, but ultimately 80% of the group still has to be from the

In today's news roundup, Lead Encounter Designer Watcher posted some upcoming nerfs to Siege of Orgrimmar--Galakras, Thok the Bloodthirsty, Siegecrafter Blackfuse, and Paragons of the Klaxxi. These adjustments were made because these bosses felt like too big of a difficulty jump in their current state, and advance notice was given for guilds to aim for the prestige of "pre-nerf" kills.

In other news, our friends at G2A, who have graciously provided prizes for past Wowhead contests, have a new feature you may enjoy: the G2A Marketplace! You can buy and sell digital content through G2A and make money at the same time--perfect for spare games or loot codes for vanity mounts and pets. Be sure to check it out at G2A and don't forget to create your account to get started!

Blackout Kick's damage-over-time component for the Windwalker specialization should no longer be incorrectly affected by Resilience a second time.

Expel Harm's damage should now properly benefit from PvP Power and interact correctly with Resilience.

Mistweaver

The glyphed version of Effuse should no longer incorrectly cost slightly less mana than the unglyphed version.

Windwalker

Touch of Karma should now correctly redirect the same amount of damage that the Monk receives in PvP. Previously, the ability was incorrectly being modified by both the target and Monk's own Resilience.

The fourth wing of Siege of Orgrimmar LFR, "Downfall," opened October 22th on US servers. This overview covers LFR's loot, vanity items, Dungeon Journal, and more!

For LFR, you will need ilvl 496 to queue up and the bosses drop ilvl 528 loot. Check out our gearing guide if you need to boost your gear a few points! If you're interested in special Garrosh weapons or achievements, you'll need to queue up for Flex or higher.